Lync 2013 now available for Windows Phone 8

Lync 2013 has been made available for Windows Phone 8 smartphones. The app from Microsoft enables those who have a Lync 2013 account to utilise the service on Windows Phone. Voice and video is supported with instant messaging, conferencing and extra call features to help provide an effective platform for business and enterprise to take advantage of.

The company previously revealed plans to launch the app this month, after demonstrating integration between both Lync and Skype at its Lync conference, held in San Diego last month. We expect to see updates in the future to further integrate everything together. Windows Phone has already sported a Lync 2010 app for some time.

Features highlighted in the Lync 2013 store description:

View colleagues’ availability in real time and select the best way to communicate – initiating an instant message (IM), email, voice or video call.

Connect to Lync Meetings with a single touch, without requiring long numeric passcodes or conference numbers.

Forward or simultaneously ring calls to your Enterprise Voice (Lync ID) number so you’ll never miss a call.

Lync 2013 for Windows Phone provides transport layer security (TLS) and perimeter/internal network protection without requiring a VPN, so your communications experience is safer no matter where you are or what network you use.

You can download Lync 2013 from the Windows Phone Store. Thanks, Techno-Freak, for the tip!

both Skype & Lync team are sleeping, both of them are unusable on my phone (Nokia Lumia 920), Lync takes for ever to open, both these needs to be integrated with messaging like Facebook is integrated. Is Lync 2013 any better ? we are still using Lync 2010.

Well the desktop version of Lync 2013, which comes with Office 2013, does work with Lync Server 2010 on the backend. The Windows 8/RT app also works with the Lync Server 2010 backend as you noted earlier. However, the WP8 App will not work with Lync Server 2010. I know parts of Office 365 can be updated at different times (i.e. SharePoint Online will be/is updated before Exchange Online) I don't know why the Lync upgrade would happen before the portal layout change, though.

You mean the Lync 2013 client for 32/64 Bit machines. If you're talking about the Lync 2013 app for Windows Phone 8 then it won't work on Lync 2010 Server. You'll need Lync 2013 Std/Ent Server to use the Lync 2013 phone app.

It's not a lawsuit they're worried about... not having a version for android would drive people away from using Lync. People don't understand that separate parts of ms are accountable for their own products and need to do things that will make them successful.

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I have Lync for my company and when at clients office they like our techs on Lync for communication with in house IT team but I want to be able to checkup on them at the same time. We can have two exchange accounts why not Lync?

Anyone else not getting push notifications through the wp8 app? iOS is working fine and everything works but I'm not getting notifications or live tile updates. Only way i can use it is when the app is active.. Sucks to be me, plus im only wp8 user in my uni tech teams, the admin is getting well pissed at me for complaining about it lol

I seem to getting push notifications on mine. Received a couple of messages on it today and some calls all seemed to work well. The only problem I have noticed is the resume time can take to long and sometimes fails and you have to recover the conversation. Calls however have been fine and I was little suprised when driving home to recieve my Lync call via the handsfree (All my other calls had been WiFi up till now and the call quality was as good as a normal call via 3G). I guess I am just used to voice calls and was not expecting this and I suppose Skype calls would work the same way just never had one as I do not really use Skype.

my nokia lumia 822 straight up hangs on resume all the time with lync 2013 app. i had to uninstall it. it seemed that the more idle my phone is (ie. not using it) the harder it had time to resume. if i picked up the phone frequently it would resume lync fine most of the time. i would have to shut down the phone and power back on to get my phone back